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Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work

Get out of your own way and rediscover your sensitivity as a superpower. — Do you feel like you’re “not good enough” or “take things too personally” at work? My clients say these exact words to me all the time. They tell me they actively get in their own way. They put too much pressure on themselves. They have trouble “turning off” at the…

Career Advice

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Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work
Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work
Career Advice

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Dec 13, 2022

Are You a Sensitive Striver? How to Channel Emotions into an Advantage at Work

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” - Charles Bukowski It hit me like a ton of bricks one Saturday night. Sitting at a half-empty Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I realized I had made a terrible mistake. For…

Highly Sensitive People

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Are You a Sensitive Striver? How to Channel Emotions into an Advantage at Work
Are You a Sensitive Striver? How to Channel Emotions into an Advantage at Work
Highly Sensitive People

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Nov 29, 2022

Superhero Syndrome: 8 Signs of Overfunctioning at Work

And how to stop before you’re completely burnt out. — Luciana’s habit of over-functioning at work had helped build a multi-billion dollar business. She had spent over 15 years leading, organizing, staying late, and, if necessary, doing the work for everyone else. Now in her third year as Senior Vice President of communications for a manufacturing company, she felt totally…

Work

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Superhero Syndrome: 8 Signs of Overfunctioning at Work
Superhero Syndrome: 8 Signs of Overfunctioning at Work
Work

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Nov 8, 2022

Do You Overanalyze Everything? Here’s How to Stop The Cycle

Stop overanalyzing at work. It’s holding you back. Let’s talk about how to spot overanalyzing and three ways to make it stop. Overanalyzing usually looks like a pained face with an internal circular monologue going around and around on your options. If this sounds familiar, know that you’re definitely not…

Self

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Do You Overanalyze Everything? Here’s How to Stop The Cycle
Do You Overanalyze Everything? Here’s How to Stop The Cycle
Self

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Oct 25, 2022

3 Unexpected Ways to Leverage Your Sensitivity as a Superpower in Your Career

Did you know that the superpower of sensitivity can become your greatest asset at work? Yet all too often we continue to hear, “don’t be so sensitive.” It’s a phrase that’s often thrown around as a jab or criticism. Many of my coaching clients have been told that they need…

Highly Sensitive People

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3 Unexpected Ways to Leverage Your Sensitivity as a Superpower in Your Career
3 Unexpected Ways to Leverage Your Sensitivity as a Superpower in Your Career
Highly Sensitive People

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Sep 27, 2022

How To Protect Yourself From Absorbing Other People’s Stress

“I’m so apprehensive about going back to the office. It feels like I’ve just recently adapted to working remotely.” Michael sighed and shook his head. He’s the chief operations officer at a growing startup, and also a client of mine. “What worries me the most is the emotional state of…

Leadership

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How To Protect Yourself From Absorbing Other People’s Stress
How To Protect Yourself From Absorbing Other People’s Stress
Leadership

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Sep 13, 2022

Here’s How to Conduct a Quarterly Performance Review

Prefer to watch the video? Click here to join The Haven, Melody’s free Facebook community to access it. Sensitive Strivers tend to set big goals for themselves. You may have had many ambitions at the beginning of this quarter or year. As a sensitive high-achiever, you always want to keep…

Work

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Here’s How to Conduct a Quarterly Performance Review
Here’s How to Conduct a Quarterly Performance Review
Work

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Sep 13, 2022

5 Sneaky Ways Imposter Syndrome Steals Your Confidence

Picture it–you just finished an important presentation at work. By all accounts, you crushed it. Your clients were smiling and satisfied. And your boss even offered you glowing feedback afterward. Nevertheless, there is a nagging feeling deep inside that steals your confidence. You push away the praise and chalk the…

Confidence

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5 Tricky Ways Imposter Syndrome Steals Your Confidence
5 Tricky Ways Imposter Syndrome Steals Your Confidence
Confidence

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Aug 23, 2022

How To Stop Beating Yourself Up at Work

Do you find it difficult to stop beating yourself up at work? I have a client named Keisha who works at a biomedical company as a research analyst. She showed up for one of our coaching sessions in a state of distress. “I can’t stop thinking about something that happened…

Self

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How To Stop Beating Yourself Up at Work
How To Stop Beating Yourself Up at Work
Self

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Aug 2, 2022

The Biggest Lessons I Learned Writing and Launching a Book

Book launch burnout is real. — My book TRUST YOURSELF: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work, recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. So I thought it only fitting to spend a moment sharing my honest reflections on the last twelve months since publication. First, Thank You to My Readers There’s nowhere better to begin than by extending my heartfelt…

Books

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The Biggest Lessons I Learned Writing and Launching a Book
The Biggest Lessons I Learned Writing and Launching a Book
Books

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Melody Wilding, LMSW

Melody Wilding, LMSW

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Author of TRUST YOURSELF. Executive coach to Sensitive Strivers. Human behavior professor. Featured in NYT, NBC, CNN. https://melodywilding.com/book

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